From: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Ryan Bradetich <rbradetich@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PgFoundry] Unsigned Data Types [1 of 2]
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:46:40 -0500
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On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Now, if (-255)::uint1 fails to throw error, that would be a bug IMHO.
> Casting any negative value to uint ought to fail, no?
>
then the patch is right but it seems to me like that is broking the
law of less surprise i expected -2::uint1 to be equivalent to
(-2)::uint1 that should be at least documented, no?
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Jaime Casanova
Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL
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